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Originally Posted by Coltdoggs
So for my learning purposes....
We are saying that it was not a legal throw in...I have in my mind that the ref is part of the playing surface in bounds or out...so if he was OOB and the ball hit him, we have a change of posession...No?
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It wasn't a throw-in imo, by rules definition. A throw-in occurs when the ball is passed directly
into the court. What happened on this play was an official being struck by an OOB
pass.
You can probably make a case for either of two scenarios:
1) Call it a throw-in, and the whole play stands if the ball didn't bounce OOB .....which means that the team A coach goes nuts.
2) Call it a pass with inadvertent interference by the R and reset the throw-in....which means that the team B coach goes nuts.
No matter what, the officials have got someone mad at 'em....even though they're the victim of a gym with a small OOB area.
A reset seems like the logical and fair solution to me. Of course, that's jmo. Others may disagree.
I have no idea either how the officials can really avoid having a play like this happen, under the circumstances described. I'll have to leave that explanation up to Juggler.